Hope so. But, arjen said my chip most probably fried..



For another topic, most young man are always issued in desperation and impatient... i am one of them and i ever tend to cure myself always but end up the fail rate in controlling myself is more than 90%...

I'm kinda surprised that speaker output shortage will lead to chip outage.. (can't help it, it rhymes!)
The built-in protection should kick in to protect.. looks like it did but did not do it's job?
Looks like part of your angpow money is going to arjen/xtorm

Can you get the chip locally? It's not hard to swap the old chip with a new one.

arjen offering me 5 euros included shipping to malaysia. :S

Thats pretty good price..

That is too easy to die. Could it be something else you done?

Price is one thing. To desolder the old chip and solder back the new one going to be deficult. Good luck.

wah CNY mood around edi, im also bz cleaning my hse...

n gotta wait for my drill to start my ta2020 project

envy u all la can play play edi, when modding of ta2020 starts? heheh i can smell it....

This post has been edited by toda6866: Feb 13 2010, 09:25 AM

argh bad news....

ill contact arjen and see how it goes

With CNY just around the corner, response from Arjen will take awhile..
Hang on there chchyong..

Anyway, just hit 44 hours on my TA2020.. Singing sweetly now.. Will enjoy lotsa music this holiday..
Guys, have a good and safe holidays!

Yesterday night manage to fix it to a casing.
Couldn't resist to change the 470uF power supply cap and add an input MKP.
Not much time to listen but frist impression is noisy (I think because I use an AC trans). Sound pressure is higher. Wait until I am back from hometown to review more.






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Thanks for the update kww, and the pics too!
Wish it is more clearer..

This is where my TA-2020 live..
In the same housing that was earlier occupied by the 'old tenant' TA-2024..
The board next to the T-Amp is the speaker relay board which will connect the speakers after about 5 seconds upon power up.
There was this minor 'thumping' issues with the TA2024 and this resolved the issue. I hate the noise!
Anyway, I still misses the TA2024 sound, might get a new housing for the TA2020 though.. for the time being, this is it.

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omg, kww, acrylic/plastic casing look nice~! where u get it?

bro, i use the blue tack to temp hold my cct board also work suprisingly well

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Added on February 13, 2010, 2:34 pmnice casing n setup, with speaker protection circuit.
my MKIII got power on thump noise also but very minimal when i turn volume all the way down.
i use the same black casing which i brought to TT at junchoon house , no extra bucks to buy nice casing

This post has been edited by wui223: Feb 13 2010, 02:34 PM

and I use blue tack too to fix my SMPS to the casing! Has been there for two years!

haha the wonders of blue tack...!!

arjen didnt reply my msg in msn, maybe he is busy with something.

anyway wishes you guys happy chinese new year and happy holiday!

jazzy see when is the tt, ill bring over my father's pre amp if im free to come

kww mkIII is not as harsh as the normal version, mainly due to the coil.

Happy CNY to u also xtorm

When is the TT btw?

xtorm,
Tentatively tuesday(the supposedly TT session). Your dad's preamp? will look forward to that!

wui,
I remembered that black casing! As long as it serves the purpose! I recycled mine.. although acrylic is quite tempting... but saving the acrylic for another project...

my bf862 can join? ya, i know it's cheap one, but i wish u guys can give some comment on it's sound..

chchyong,
why not? The more the merrier! BTW, is it the same project from diyaudio? Should be interesting to audition..
wait till you see my buffer preamp..

This post has been edited by jazzy939: Feb 13 2010, 04:00 PM

Ya, it's the same, shunt regulator, with ugly metal casing... [ credit to littleghost, he help me a lot in this ]

i try to luangkan my time and find myself a transport to be there... if i really can't go, i wish my preamp are there too for u guys to play with...

This post has been edited by chchyong89: Feb 13 2010, 04:28 PM